Lemon- No.

Continuation From - None.

Warnings- Character death? (hardly stressing in this situation)


9 Water

Yugi looked out over the cliff of his home. He lived in a lighthouse; the light guided many people home and away from the dangerous rocks below. Yugi looked down at the sharp rocks and sighed. This place was such a pain and joy to live in. People didn't need lighthouses anymore, and Yugi was left alone. His thoughts often wandered to just under a century ago… when he lost someone special.


Turn the lights out in the light house,

I saw you coming Felt the ship wreck,

Saw the wreckage, I heard you yelling,

Just then, that's when I saw your reflection in the sand,

Wondering where you were washed up, oh, I ran to the water,


Yugi woke up as his Grandfather shouted "Yugi! The lamp is out!"

Yugi gasped as his Grandpa struggled to relight the lamp, they were the lighthouse keepers, the wind and wave spray was so fierce it reached up to the lighthouse on the cliff and had broken one of the glass windows. Yugi put up another pane, with difficulty and shouted over the storm "But Atem's coming home today!"

Solomon nodded, Yugi looked out of the glass as the light was relit. And gasped, a flash of lightning illuminated a ship, on a crash course with the rocks. Yugi pressed his hands to the glass when a second bolt lit up the flag… the ship Atem was sailing on!

"Atem!" Yugi screamed, as the haunting, booming, crunching crash of the ship into the rocks was heard over the waves and wind. Yugi ran down the lighthouse and flung open the door, ignoring Solomon's cries for him to come back.

Yugi ran to the cliff edge, a foolish thing to do normally, and looked down to see the ship in he heard the shouts of some of the men and ran down the cliff's path to the beach. Yugi thought he saw Atem's face in the black rumbling sea, he ran along the beach looking for him again, oil lamp in hand.


I can put my hands down in it

But I won't bring nothing up

Sitting on the shore all day

Waiting on the tide to come


Yugi sighed, staring down at the ocean that had given him so much, only to tear it away. Atem was a fearless and proud sailor, full of charm and wonderful ideas. Yugi had fallen head over heels without a second to consider the idea of a long distance relationship…


But you can't hold on to water

It fills you up but never stays

It's only good to wash away today

And you're loving me like water

You're slippin' through my fingers' touch

A natural disaster, love

Bringing on the flood, the flood

Love me like a flood, a flood, bring it on


The elderly man sat on his seat on the cliff and watched the waves, even now he still prayed for some sign of the man he'd searched for that night.


Yugi guided a few survivors to a beach house and ran out again and again, bringing back more people, but not The one he was looking for.


Stayed the night out by the beach house, it's all so quiet

Lit a candle by the window so you might find it

Hope you know you'll always have a place to call your home

Still, I can't help but think I could have saved you from drowning


In the earliest hours of dawn, Yugi was still wandering around the beach, looking, searching, calling with a voice that was almost gone, an oil lamp in his hands. The beach house had candles and warmth, they tried to get Yugi to come inside, but he shook his head and wandered on. "He promised to come home."

Finally, someone washed up.

But this one wasn't a survivor.

Solomon found Yugi that evening, cradling the body of his love and sobbing his heart out.


Yugi still felt, then and now, that he could have done something. He felt wished he had looked further faster, he wished that he had been there to light the lamp quicker, he wished he could go back and change it all…


I can put my hands down in it, yeah

But I won't bring nothing up

Sitting on the shore all day

Just waiting on the tide to come

But you can't hold on to water

It fills you up but never stays

It's only good to wash away today

And you're loving me like water

You're slippin' through my fingers' touch

A natural disaster, love

Bringing on the flood, the flood

Love me like a flood, a flood, bring it on


Solomon convinced Yugi to let go and bring Atem's body to the town to be prepared for his funeral. Yugi wept for three days, remembering him, wishing he could have done something more.

When he found him, his body was already stone cold, he was too late… the water washed away the blood on Atem's temple, which explained why he didn't swim to shore. He kissed the cold dead lips and stayed with him until he was forced to let go, to let him slip through his fingers for the last time.


I knew the waves were rising

When I felt them all retreating

Went to take a dive in the deep end

Oh, what was I thinking?


Yugi remembered spotting him. He had run into the waves, the deepest and most dangerous part of the beach, diving in without thinking.

He saw Atem's coat, and as he battled towards him, the waves drew back. Yugi had always known what that meant; it meant that bigger waves were approaching. And the area made it dangerous. But he reached his lover's shell and held on while the waves batted them around like a cat with balls of yarn.

He had also hurt himself badly with the rash decision, from then on he walked with a crutch. He managed to drag them into the shallows, then had fallen apart when it was all for nothing. Yugi remembered, watching the water of the ocean filter through the very rocks that were the cause of his loneliness.


But you can't hold on to water

It fills you up but never stays

It's only good to wash away today

And you're loving me like water

You're slippin' through my fingers' touch

A natural disaster, love

Bringing on the flood, the flood

Love me like a flood, a flood, bring it on


Yugi bowed his head and felt his tears fall. He was old, alone, and extremely tired.


Rising and the falling of my tears

Rising and the falling of my tears that fill the ocean

The ocean, the ocean

My tears that fill the ocean, the ocean


Yugi was tired of crying, his tears over the years must have produced another ocean. The chair at the top of the cliff was where he spent most of his day. He waited for that time when he'd met him again.

"You can't hold onto water."

Yugi stiffened, he looked to his right fearfully.

Atem stood there with his confident smirk, dressed as he had last been seen alive, he was as young as he had been that night. He reached for Yugi's old, withered hand and smiled "I came home, aibou. Let's go, we've got another chance."

Yugi's eyes filled with tears as his soul took Atem's hand and left his body behind, like shrugging off a too large coat. Yugi stared at Atem in wonder, Atem kissed the hand he held; the skin smooth and youthful once again. "I'm so glad to see you again."

Yugi flung himself into Atem's arms and held tightly "Atem … I'm sorry, I was there, I should have saved you, I should have done more," he cried.

Atem rubbed his back, his calloused hands, worn from a short, hard life at sea, rubbed the smaller's back gently. "There was nothing you could have done, love. I realised that, I was the first to drown, I hit my head when the ship first crashed. There was nothing anyone could have done, I've accepted it. And it doesn't matter anymore; we're together again," he raised Yugi's head and kissed away his tears. "You can't hold onto this, come, there're lots of people waiting for us," he pulled at Yugi's hands.

Yugi smiled after a moment and nodded. "Okay…"

Atem squeezed his hand as they started walking, in no particular direction, and for no instant reason, just moving. Atem knew Yugi wasn't over it; a century was a long time to convince one's self of guilt. "It's okay little one, I love you,"

Yugi leaned on his shoulder, young, in love and at peace "I love you too"

A kiss sealed their vow.


Sonfic ... I couldn't think of anything else for this, and I was considering the titanic drowing part ... But there was the promblem that is: I've never seen the movie all the way though!

So I couldn't do that. Boo hoo!

This turned out quite well ... but it's my least fav so far. Please review.

Next chapter - Wind